Definition of Mumps

Definition of Mumps

1.n. Sullenness; silent displeasure; the sulks.

Definition of Mumps

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2. Noun. (pathology) A contagious disease caused by a virus of the genus ''Rubulavirus'', mostly occurring in childhood, which causes swelling of glands in the face and neck. ¹

Definition of Mumps

Medical Definition of Mumps

1.
An infectious acute viral disease affecting the parotid glands. The gonads, meninges and pancreas can also be affected. The causative agent is a paramyxovirus. Humans are the only natural host for this disease.
Common symptoms include weakness, fever, sore throat, malaise and puffiness to the cheeks (due to parotid gland swelling). Patients are contagious 1 day prior to the onset of swelling until the swelling is gone. Recovery is generally in 2 weeks.
(27 Sep 1997)

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Literary usage of Mumps

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1.The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)"DURING the past winter, at Camp Lee, we have been afforded a rare opportunity of
studying mumps in adults. Nine cases of cerebral complications in frank ..."

4.Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)"mumps (Epidemic Parotitis) mumps usually occurs between the ages of 5 .to ...
As a military problem, mumps frequentl occurs in men between 21 and 31 years. ..."

5.The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1878)"Of the Nature of mumps.—M. Fehr, after observing several cases of mumps with the
greatest exactness, decides that it is right to consider the disease as ..."

6.A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children by John Forsyth Meigs (1877)"mumps is an acute febrile specific disease, contagious and epidemic ; occurring
but once in ... Some authors, as Niemeyer, object to classifying mumps with ..."

7.A Treatise on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood by Job Lewis Smith (1890)"mumps is a constitutional or blood disease with local manifestations. It occurs
chiefly in childhood, youth, ¡mil early manhood, cases being rare in infancy ..."

8.The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)"DURING the past winter, at Camp Lee, we have been afforded a rare opportunity of
studying mumps in adults. Nine cases of cerebral complications in frank ..."

11.Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)"mumps (Epidemic Parotitis) mumps usually occurs between the ages of 5 .to ...
As a military problem, mumps frequentl occurs in men between 21 and 31 years. ..."

12.The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1878)"Of the Nature of mumps.—M. Fehr, after observing several cases of mumps with the
greatest exactness, decides that it is right to consider the disease as ..."

13.A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children by John Forsyth Meigs (1877)"mumps is an acute febrile specific disease, contagious and epidemic ; occurring
but once in ... Some authors, as Niemeyer, object to classifying mumps with ..."

14.A Treatise on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood by Job Lewis Smith (1890)"mumps is a constitutional or blood disease with local manifestations. It occurs
chiefly in childhood, youth, ¡mil early manhood, cases being rare in infancy ..."